Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The fall, sometimes referred to as a "second season", was very quiet. The Andover, Kansas outbreak of April 26, 1991 was famous for its violent tornadoes, incredible video and is the signature event of this tornado season. 1991 saw one F5 tornado touch down in Kansas.
The tornado killed seventeen, injured over two hundred others, and left an estimated $300 million (1991 USD) of damage in its wake. The tornado was one of the most powerful to ever strike Kansas; it received the highest rating on the Fujita scale. The tornado first touched down near Clearwater, moving northeast while retaining F0 and F1 intensity.
The 1991 outbreak occurred during a period of modernization for the National Weather Service and helped highlight the value of radar imagery for detecting tornadoes. In April 1991, the WSR-88D NEXRAD radar in Norman, Oklahoma, was the only radar of its kind with Doppler capabilities, and even then it had not been cleared for use in day-to-day ...
On April 26, 1991, an EF5 tornado killed 17 people as it raked across Wichita into Andover, Kansas. Here's what happened that day. Tornado hit Andover, Kansas days after the anniversary of the ...
The tornado, which was given a preliminary EF3 rating by the National Weather Service, was extremely well documented, a trait it shares with another infa Echoes of 1991 F5 tornado in Andover after ...
May 1991 Central Plains tornado outbreak: May 16, 1991: Central Great Plains: 46: 0 fatalities (4 significant) Tornado outbreak of June 14–18, 1992: June 14–18, 1992: Central United States: 170: 1 fatality: Large outbreak produced many strong to violent tornadoes, mainly across the Northern Plains states.
This tornado season got off to an accelerated start, with the cumulative number of storms thus far eclipsing storm counts in recent years — and the 15-year average. ... Since 1991, nearly 70 ...
Template:1991 tornado outbreaks This page was last edited on 24 August 2023, at 19:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...